Principal photography will get underway in the UK September 9 on Guy Ritchie's latest, "Man from U.N.C.L.E.," which brings CIA agent Napoleon Solo and KGB agent Ilya Kuryakin of the popular 1960s TV series to the big screen. The film stars beefy Brit Henry Cavill (aka Superman) as Solo and Armie Hammer (aka the Lone Ranger) as Kuryakin.

Principal photography will get underway in the UK September 9 on Guy Ritchie's latest, "Man from U.N.C.L.E.," which brings CIA agent Napoleon Solo and KGB agent Ilya Kuryakin of the popular 1960s TV series to the big screen.

The Warner Bros. film is the first to be made under Ritchie and producer Lionel Wigram's new banner Ritchie/Wigram Productions, which has a first-look deal with WB. Ritchie and Wigram also co-penned the script.

Here's the official synopsis:

Set against the backdrop of the early 1960s, at the height
of the Cold War, “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.” centers on CIA agent Solo and KGB
agent Kuryakin. Forced to put aside
longstanding hostilities, the two team up on a joint mission to stop a
mysterious international criminal organization, which is bent on destabilizing
the fragile balance of power through the proliferation of nuclear weapons and
technology. The duo’s only lead is the
daughter of a vanished German scientist, who is the key to infiltrating the
criminal organization, and they must race against time to find him and prevent
a worldwide catastrophe.

Ritchie took over the writing-directing reins last year for the long-in-the-works project, which previously had Steven Soderbergh attached. In May, Tom Cruise replaced George Clooney as Solo; this casting was changed again within the same month due to a conflict with Cruise's "Mission: Impossible 5" shoot, with Cavill stepping in as the new Solo replacement.